Press Kit

Former Hacker, Published Author and privacy expert tells your audience:

Who is selling children’s information and why

What is a data broker

Your name is your property and not public information

Who is collecting information and from

Not all brokers are the same

What is a list broker is there a difference

What brokers sell that you would not expect

What is public information

How is it a threat to national security

Regulation is an attempt to legitimize stealing

Why you should disrupt your data

Your Identity is your property

Members of Congress have known about this for years

Details about young children are available for sale on the internet. Teens, Active Military, Veterans, and Police officers home addresses are for sale on the internet for less than 10 cents each. Brokers sell home addresses, relations, phone numbers and claim it is all public information, or you gave permission. Anyone can purchase information from the over 800 sites that are on the internet, that sell information about virtually anyone. ISIS or ISL is a threat to our way of life, Cartels in South America, International scammers, professional thieves, and pedophiles have all used these sites. Currently, data brokers are tracking the movement’s habits and purchases of over 295 million Americans. Your sensitive and what you would think as private information is available for sale. Information is available about all of us.

Many of the familiar companies that we rely on daily are quietly exposing and selling our personal information on the open market. Less obvious operators like credit card processors and website trackers outright steal our information for profit.
While some customers agree to sharing their information, few understand that it’s sold for a profit without their consent or payment. In fact, the growing numbers of ‘agreement’ contracts we feel obligated to sign are technically not valid yet treated as permission to violate our privacy and sell our identities.

Our Privacy Is At A Cross Roads

While it may seem routine, even claimed as necessary in some corners. Forces within government would like to permanently legitimize the theft of our personal information. Politicians often depend on data brokers to spin public information to be elected and feed their addiction to power. In the face of these practices, many people feel helpless and at the mercy of corporations and even our government as they harvest every detail of our lives, monitor our every move and sell us out to the highest bidder.

We can retake control of our own information. Stop willingly being bullied by large corporations. We together can force corporations and our own government to reform to our wishes. Your privacy is a right and a matter of law. Your name is your property, how could your name possibly belong to anyone else? Think about it, it can’t under a democracy. Trip Elix has spent over 30 years in the world of computers. He was on the internet the second day it became available to the public. Early in his career, he worked as a private investigator and data broker. As an insider to the online world, he brings considerable insight and expertise as he sheds light on the challenge we currently face.
Trip Elix AuthorYour information belongs to you. Societal myths have been created to convince you otherwise. Your name is not just out there the brokers are desperate to get your information and do anything to find out and track who you are. Many states sell your driver license and identification information to the data broker industry. The book includes a plan of action, for you to alter what is being gathered about you and much more.

Sample Questions Use these or your own.
1. Your is being collected just for marketing is a myth (1 minute)